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Glass-blowing UCSD chemist preserves an art lost to most scientists

SEP 27, 2007
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San Diego Union-Tribune : In a darkened laboratory on the UCSD campus, Mark Thiemens peers intently into the blue flame of a blowtorch, directing its fierce, fusing heat at the glowing orange ends of two glass tubes, each a piece of a larger latticework of interconnected beakers, flasks and bulbs.
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